Every fairy tale has a dark side...

Elodie Rose has a secret. Any day, she’ll become a wolf and succumb to the violence that’s cursed her family for centuries. For seventeen years she’s hidden who and what she is. But now someone knows the truth and is determined to exterminate her family line. Living on borrowed time in the midst of this dangerous game of hide and seek, the last thing Elodie needs to do is fall in love. But Sawyer is determined to protect her, and the brooding, angry boy is more than what he seems. Can they outsmart a madman? And if they survive, will they find a way to beat the curse for good?

Red is created by Kait Nolan, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

"You've been... " Dad couldn't even finish the sentence. He collapsed into the chair. Even now he was doing everything in his power not to look at me.


"You can say all you want about helping me survive, Dad, but you won't let me live. So yes, I lied to you about my job. I lied to you about a lot of things. We've both been lying. To each other. To ourselves. This year has been borrowed time. I should be dead already."


It was strangely liberating to say all of this out loud.


"I should have turned last year. We both know that." I stood again, squaring my shoulders. I was going to be honest about all this for the first time in my life. No more deception. "I think a hunter knows it, too."


What little color had returned to my father's face drained out again. "What?"


Chapter 29: Elodie